24th August 2000

Sending HTML e-mail messages to friends can be fun, but some users find fancy formatting extremely annoying (like my good friends, Gordon and David). Before you decide to drop stationery into someone's Inbox, be sure they won't mind the colorful intrusion. How often have you not been able to view a message's contents because of lousy color combinations? Certain elements don't work well together (e.g., olive text on a red background). Since senders seldom stop to optimize their final products, Outlook (and Outlook Express) users should be en guarde! The next time you receive one of those 'lousy' messages, open it, click somewhere inside the message body, then use the CTRL+SHIFT+O keyboard shortcut. That'll textify the message good, so you won't have to do no squintin' anymore. We likes it that way in Des Moines.